Take the long way home
From our long drive to New York last week, a sight you don't often see in the UK...
Note the bottom right-hand corner of the SatNav: "Turn in 242 miles".
Oh, and it turned out really to be more of a lane-change.
Category: Photos
Convergence
There's a nice demonstration of a 'vanishing point' as you come up the stairs in Apple's 5th Avenue Store in New York.
Old Harry visits New York
Rose met Henry VIII (or at least, experienced what it might have been like!) in the Met. This is one of his suits of armour.
Monday is now upside down
For those not familiar with the finer points of operation of the British postbox, the little metal label just above the slot is changed by the postman on each visit, to indicate the day of the next collection. This one got inverted by mistake, making it appear as if our local service might be rather prompter than usual!
Postcard from New York
We weren't the only people enjoying the Delacorte mechanical clock in Central Park last week...
On the border
I drove from Pittsburgh back to Detroit a couple of days ago. Five hours of, frankly, not very interesting roads, relieved only by a good selection of podcasts and a rather splendid sunset somewhere near the Ohio/Michigan border.
Blackstone books and beyond
For those following its progress, Rose's book is now generally available in the States. We found it on the shelves of a Borders in Ann Arbor this morning.
It's also starting to appear in other forms. Those with a Sony eBook Reader can find it here, while those who prefer audiobooks and have a fair bit of cash to spare can get 14 enjoyable hours of listening here. I quite like the CD cover:
The official launch & signing is in Allen Park, Michigan, on Saturday.
Friends in low places
Any idea what this is?
It's a punt pole, with my camera attached to the end using a Gorillapod. Look, here's a close-up:
And why, you might ask, would you want to do this?
Well, when my pal Bill Thompson organised this year's geek punting picnic, PuntCon, I felt I needed to find a suitably geeky way to take a photo of the gathering. So I put my camera on a timer and raised the pole. It's a bit tricky to aim, but here is at least a part of the group:
Many thanks to Bill (and everyone else) for a most enjoyable afternoon.
